Identifying exogenous drivers and evolutionary stages in FLOSS projects

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 739-750

  Beecher, Karl ^a   Capiluppi, Andrea ^a   Boldyreff, Cornelia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Open Source software; Software evolution; Software repositories

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DIFFERENT PROCESS; EMPIRICAL RESULTS; EVOLUTIONARY STAGES; FLOSS PROJECTS; GENERAL PATTERNS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PROJECTS; OVERALL CHARACTERISTICS; PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS; REPOSITORY MININGS; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES; SOURCEFORGE;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 62849106624     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2008.10.026     Document Type: Article

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